Johnny Tjupurrula Warangkula b. c.1920

Also known as Johnny Warangula Tjupurrula, Johnny Warrangula Tjupurrula, Johnny Warankula Tjupurrula, Johnny Warrangula Tjaparula, Johnny W. Tjupurrula, W. Johnny
  • Artist (Painter)
One of the founders of Papunya Tula Artists and most renowned painters of the desert art movement, whose signature techniques of overdotting produced effects of "tremulous illusion".

Citations

  • Johnson, V. (2008), 'Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists’, IAD Press, Alice Springs, NT ISBN 978 1 86465 090 7.

    http://www.iadpress.com

  • Bardon, Geoffrey and Bardon, James (2004), 'Papunya: A Place Made After the Story; The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement’, Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, VIC ISBN-10 : 0-522-85110-X / ISBN-13: 978-0522851106.

Initial data sources

  • Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert: A Biographical Dictionary